Swarm of micro flying robots in the wild

X Zhou, X Wen, Z Wang, Y Gao, H Li, Q Wang… - Science Robotics, 2022 - science.org
Aerial robots are widely deployed, but highly cluttered environments such as dense forests
remain inaccessible to drones and even more so to swarms of drones. In these scenarios …

Online distributed trajectory planning for quadrotor swarm with feasibility guarantee using linear safe corridor

J Park, D Kim, GC Kim, D Oh… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a new online multi-agent trajectory planning algorithm that guarantees to
generate safe, dynamically feasible trajectories in a cluttered environment. The proposed …

Review of autonomous path planning algorithms for mobile robots

H Qin, S Shao, T Wang, X Yu, Y Jiang, Z Cao - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mobile robots, including ground robots, underwater robots, and unmanned aerial vehicles,
play an increasingly important role in people's work and lives. Path planning and obstacle …

Vision-controlled micro flying robots: from system design to autonomous navigation and mapping in GPS-denied environments

D Scaramuzza, MC Achtelik, L Doitsidis… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous microhelicopters will soon play a major role in tasks like search and rescue,
environment monitoring, security surveillance, and inspection. If they are further realized in …

Distributed predictive drone swarms in cluttered environments

E Soria, F Schiano, D Floreano - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent works in aerial robotics show that the self-organized and cohesive flight of swarms
can emerge from the exchange of purely local information between neighboring agents …

MADER: Trajectory planner in multiagent and dynamic environments

J Tordesillas, JP How - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents MADER, a 3-D decentralized and asynchronous trajectory planner for
UAVs that generates collision-free trajectories in environments with static obstacles …

Time-optimal planning for quadrotor waypoint flight

P Foehn, A Romero, D Scaramuzza - Science robotics, 2021 - science.org
Quadrotors are among the most agile flying robots. However, planning time-optimal
trajectories at the actuation limit through multiple waypoints remains an open problem. This …

A survey on aerial swarm robotics

SJ Chung, AA Paranjape, P Dames… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of aerial swarms to solve real-world problems has been increasing steadily,
accompanied by falling prices and improving performance of communication, sensing, and …

Aerial swarms: Recent applications and challenges

M Abdelkader, S Güler, H Jaleel, JS Shamma - Current robotics reports, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Currently, there is a large body of research on multi-agent
systems addressing their different system theoretic aspects. Aerial swarms as one type of …

Learning interaction-aware trajectory predictions for decentralized multi-robot motion planning in dynamic environments

H Zhu, FM Claramunt, B Brito… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a data-driven decentralized trajectory optimization approach for multi-
robot motion planning in dynamic environments. When navigating in a shared space, each …